• Robin Jones
    … (nee Campbell) have three children (Sheri, Darren and Charles) and one grandchild (Dawson). … Robin Jones …
  • Michele Caccavella
    … My mother arrived, a single young woman travelling alone on the Vulcania, coming from a small Sicilian Town. Her mother was … young daughters in a very strict environment. My mother being the only one left single decided to start a new life and venture alone to Toronto, Canada. Her name is Salvatrice Novello and arrived June …
  • Salvatrice Novello
    … My mother arrived, a single young woman travelling alone on the Vulcania, coming from a small Sicilian Town. Her mother was … young daughters in a very strict environment. My mother being the only one left single decided to start a new life and venture alone to Toronto, Canada. Her name is Salvatrice Novello and arrived June …
  • Jeannette A. Holm
    … I was one of thousands of British War Brides who arrived at the Pier. Having … on the ship "Aquitania", I disembarked in Halifax on May 1st, 1946. I can remember the band on shore playing "Here comes the bride". And the kind welcome we received. Canada has been good to me. Although, I was very homesick, having grown …
  • Mary J. Coleiro
    … and son-in-law. Since she had no sufficient means to make her dream come true, the three remaining daughters (all well employed, two school teachers and one travel agency clerk) decided to come with her and try out our existence in Canada. We arrived at Pier …
  • Canada’s Self Portrait Contemporary Art Exhibit
    June 28 to July 11, 2016 Winner of the 2016 Applied Arts Conceptual Illustration award, Canada’s Self Portrait is a participatory art project about who we are and what we stand for as Canadians. For three weeks during the summer of 2014, artist Aquil Virani and cofounder Rebecca Jones took a …
  • History Detectives Program
    Ideal For: Ages 10 - 15 Maximum number of participants: 30 How do we learn about the past? How do historians unravel history? In this workshop students will take on the role of history detectives, using artefacts and documents as they work collaboratively to unravel an immigration case study from …
  • Andrea Goetz, daughter Julia
    … where we stayed we stayed on the top floor on an infirmary. Everyone was tired and weary, babies fussy. The next morning after a … for life jackets, U-boats were an ever present danger. We arrived in one of Halifax's famous fogs. We had to stay outside the harbour until …
  • Canadian Order of AHEPA (COA)
    … When one tells their story It all begins in Greece. From sorrow, a spark of …
  • Herman Streuber
    … and immigrants were placed all over Western Canada. Streuber was one of the organizers of the Canadian Christian Council for …